World's Longest?

ge_rik

ge_rik

British narrow gauge (esp. Southwold and W&LLR)
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One for the US buffs.

http://youtu.be/QhQMqKl38wU W...he lower the coupling the better. Rik
 
Massive train, massive railway, massive investment - jealous! Thanks for posting Rik.
 
Amazing !
 
Dennis apparently employed someone to come and install Kadees on his stock!

Rik, All my stock is body mounted Kadees, and yes it makes a difference, especially with backing round a corner. Truck mounted couplers put 'side stress' on the truck, the forces of the coupler are trying to push the trucks away from the track. When backing a train with truck mounts this is mostly apparent.

Alec
 
Yes, it's impressive, but -why does he do it? I find that with 150m of track and 200 vehicles, I have a full time occupation running and maintaining that, so does he employ a stage army to help him? I suppose it's the usual answer to why - because he can...

Graham H
 
pghewett said:
Yes, it's impressive, but -why does he do it? I find that with 150m of track and 200 vehicles, I have a full time occupation running and maintaining that, so does he employ a stage army to help him? I suppose it's the usual answer to why - because he can...

Graham H
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The term desirable maximum applies, for me at least. I have less than Graham but have reached the point where I have what is the desirable maximum for me. Any more track (200 foot circle plus sidings) would mean I had to spend too much time on maintenance. Any more stock and I would struggle to store it. Also there is a limit to how much stuff you can get out for a running session within a reasonable time.

Still its nice to see how far you can go with this hobby of ours.
 
I think Chris M hits it on the head - there's a limit to what we can do and still enjoy it/ cope with it. Besides storage and maintenance, there's also the time taken to set it up for each session - more than an hour or so de-boxing the stock, removing the effects of cats and foxes, and returning the stock to store and you've eaten into the operating day too much. [Nice if you can have a storage shed with the rakes already set up and just roll them out to the running lines but that requires an immense amount of room or one of those paternoster type storage units (who can afford those?)- and then you'd have to dust the stock!]

GH
 
I have made boxes to carry my rolling stock. Means they take up less space, don't pick up too much dust and I can get a rake out quickly. All of my wagons and most of my coaches are now stored in these boxes.
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V neat. If only one had the time... As one of our member's signature blocks remarks, now one has retired one has so much less time to do things.

GH
 
I have only around 36 items of rolling stock which I set out at the start of most running sessions as I like to carry on my freight movements from where I left off. My stock boxes are a bit like the cassettes used in smaller scales:

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I have one stock box per siding on the railway - that way I can keep track of what's where at the end of each session and carry them in and out of the house relatively easily.

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Rik
 
That's neat. Like the idea of carrying on from where you left off.
Wouldn't work for me though - my trains are nominally 18 foot long... I thought that was quite good until I saw this topic!
 
Thats quite impressive for the USA model as thats pulling more than the proto.
As the prototype could pull 4450 short tons up a 1.14% grade, that equates to pulling
around 365pounds in 1:29 scale......not bad at all.
 
Fantastic :thumbup: would take me all week end to put those freight cars on the track :rolf:
 
I am fortunate enough to have space to run long US outline trains straight in and out of the shed, strangely though there is never enough storage hence the shelf :thinking:

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